Goal: Evaluate China’s values regarding family from 1990-2018 using the World Values Survey data.

Context: Family Values in the People's Republic of China

Confucian Filial Piety: The Confucian virtue of filial piety (孝xiao) stresses respect for parents, elders and ancestors, as well as emphasized patriarchal family structures where wives served their husbands and mothers served their sons. Confucianism conceptualized the family as analogous to the human body or a living tree, where every role in the family was a distinct component of an inseparable entity. A filial son is obedient and loyal; a father is strict and benevolent.

Modernization Theory: Debunked in the 1970s. As a society becomes more industrialized and modern, the Modernization Theory argues that the role of the individual increases in importance and the family decreases in importance.

Importing Data -- Six Datasets from the World Values Survey

Each survey has approximately 1000 respondents with 400+ Questions.

Isolate the columns that are related to family, children, and parents.

While I wish there was an easier way to do this, I had to isolate each column manually, not with the handy filter function...

1995

2001

2007

2012

2018

Concat the Mean Data...

Melt the Data

China's Economic Growth

Line Chart - Family Values